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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






2. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






3. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






4. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






5. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






6. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






7. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






8. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






9. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






10. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






11. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






12. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






13. Feeling through fingertips






14. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






15. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






16. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






17. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






18. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






19. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






20. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






21. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






22. Multisensory Structured Language Education






23. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






24. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






25. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






26. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






27. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






28. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






29. r-controlled syllable






30. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






31. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






32. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






33. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






34. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






35. Individual Educational Plan






36. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






37. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






38. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






39. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






40. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






41. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






42. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






43. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






44. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






45. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






46. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






47. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






48. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






49. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






50. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






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